Stephen van Beek
MA (Tripos), Dip CTP, Member CAPT

Professional Development Record

Workshops and Seminars

P.A.C.T.(A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) Training Part 2 with Stan Tatkin, Psy.D. ,Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Family Medicine,University of California at Los Angeles November 7 and 8, 2011, two day workshop

P.A.C.T.(A Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) Training Part 1 with Stan Tatkin, Psy.D. ,Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Family Medicine,University of California at Los Angeles September 19 and 20,2011, two day workshop

'Mentalization' Based Treatment for Borderlines, with Dr. Anthony W. Bateman MA, FRCPsych, Mt. Sinai Hospital, September 16. 2011, half-day workshop

Living Together with The Phantom(Phantasma/Phantasy): Accumulative Effects of the 'Dead Mother' Complex, TPS & I Scientific Meeting with Dr Susana Velasco, April 2011 Toronto Ontario

The Brain that Changes Itself: The Neuroplasticity Revolution for the Helping Professions" all-day seminar with Dr. Norman Doidge, November 19 in Toronto

Naked on the Royal Road: Dissociation and the Paradox of Privacy with Dr. Philip Bromberg, The Annual Stephen Mitchell Memorial Lecture, October 2010, Toronto Ontario

The Method Pilates, Matwork Teacher Certification Training (Parts 1 and 2), Physicalmind Institute, 2009  

'Mindfulness and Psychotherapy', an on-line NICBM Course led by Ronald D. Siegel 2006-2007

Workshop leader and Course developer 2006-2008

Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy training series with Pragmos Consulting for Toronto Therapy Network members (www.therapytoronto.ca)

Expert Panelist

"Unconscious Motivators and Situational Seat Belt Use", published results of a literature and expert panel review for NTSA (National Transportation Safety Administration, an agency of the United States Federal Government) Washington DC

Reading

Redirect:The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change by Timothy D. Wilson

Annoying:The Science of What Bugs us by Joe Palco and Flora Lichtman

Love and War in Intimate Relationships by Marion Solomon and Stan Tatkin

The Nature of Sympathy by Max Scheler

The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram

Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind by Peter D. Kramer

On the Marionette Theatre by Heinrich von Kleist

The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist MD

Self Comes to Mind by Antonio Damasio

On Being Certain by Robert A. Burton MD

Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber

Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt

The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine MD

The Male Brain by Louann Brizendine MD

The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge MD

The Weariness of the Self by Alain Ehrenberg

Schizoid Phenomena, Object-Relations, and the Self by Harry Guntrip

The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt

Portrait of the Blue Lady: The Character of Melancholy by Lyn Cowan

Mindfulness and Psychotherapy edited by Christopher K. Germer, Ronald D. Siegel and Paul R. Fulton

The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

The Divided Self by R.D. Laing MD

The Essential Loewald: Collected Papers and Monographs by Hans W. Loewald

The Divided Mind by John Sarno MD

Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self by Allan N. Schore 

Soul Murder by Lawrence Shengold MD

Looking Awry: Jacques Lacan in Popular Culture by Slavoj Zizek

Brief Therapy with Individuals and Couples edited by Carlson and Sperry

Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss

The Raw and the Cooked Volume 1 of Mythologies by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman

From Honey to Ashes Volume 2 of Mythologies by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman

The Origin of Table Manners Volume 3 of Mythologies by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman

The Naked Man Volume 4 of Mythologies by Claude Levi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman

Supervision

Supervision for several therapists from 2006

Related Activities

The Memory Project, a bibliotherapy exploration

The Man without Qualities Volumes 1 & 2 by Robert Musil

Austerlitz, Vertigo and The Emigrants by Max Sebald

A la Recherche du Temps Perdu Volume 1-3 by Marcel Proust

A Book of Memories by Peter Nadas

Somatic Learning Project

Personal study of Alexander, Pilates, Franklin and Feldenkrais methodologies

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